A/N:

MysticSuperSaiyanGohan: It'll be a gruesome death for someone. And since Tssalyo is based off a certain former that I dislike (cough), I'm gonna have fun with the chapter in Fuschia. If I ever get there…

Fjord Cannon: Alright, one vote against Absol. I was thinking about the whole 'disaster pokemon' thing, but I like to take my reviewers seriously. Houndoom's stored as a possibility... but I wonder… heh. Definite possibility now.

MorriganFearn: I'll let Kani answer a few of those comments.

Kani: Well, first off, I beat on Mathrara because he's a pest. Sandstone's limited on his experience of annoying people, but… well, consider him to be worse than Miroku, and those other perverted characters. He's tried to panty-watch, hit on me when I've said no a dozen times…

Sandstone: He's getting more respect, though, and maturing now. I've had enough slapping him around, and frankly, he's tired of it. That's why he wants to evolve, so he gets a bit more respect.

Kani: Secondly, we're evolving for a reason. Chris might be hopeful that lower-evolutions can handle the rockets… but we're pessimistic. Third, what bullies? Rockets are crime lords, that's what this is mostly about… well, if Sandstone would stop screwing around, and have more rocket encounters, things might be different.

Sandstone: As for the beating up (Sanja), how's he going to stop her, or Kani for the matter? His main ability is telepathy, and a side ability with that healing trick. He could overload her (Kani or Sanja's) brain, but that would probably knock both them out. Besides, it's a bit of sardonic humor that I'm famous in RL for. Also, it's empathy that Chris has for pokemon. Doesn't matter for humans. So he should be defending Mathrara, true. But gifted ones are still human, any sane dragon would have realized that. Sometimes, they get fed up, or angry. There are a few things they can't do, however…

Your criticism was welcomed, by the way. But… there's one thing. Murkrow is out, because I said black fur. And Nintendo didn't give very good stats to Murkrow either, it's sort of a joke.

Wow, long response.

Shelby Cloyster (First review): And who says he can't have the best of both worlds? As for something evil at the gym, take a look at the story. Besides ONE GIRL dying (Icewind), the female gifted one (Inquisitors), and the family (who don't seem very important), there isn't much 'bad', or death. I'm sorry, but it's starting to feel Mary-Sueish to me. I try to avoid that, given a chance. So while I'm tempted to kill a main plot character (not the main one, but…) well, I'll decide later, no promises.

Maverick Hunter Phoenix: Read the 'To All Readers' note below. Bad news, unfortunately.

MevilH: I think they're all white, with blue eyes. But I could be wrong.

Shelby Cloyster (second review): Wow, long review there. Anyway…

Chris has to loose sooner or later. Unless you want a Berry-Stu (sorry RI2, I'm borrowing the name), he's going to have to. And I do NOT like that type of story, I'm too pessimistic. You seemed to have realized that, but I'll point it out anyways.

Anyway, for the errors… I CANNOT spot them. I've tried, but my spellchecker gives me a migraine with 'this isn't recognized', blah blah blah, so I can't for the life of me spot the errors. I double-check before I post, but I can't see everything. So again, if you spot errors, point it out in a review, I know I said that before. As for fixing a chapter, it's simple. Export the chapter (it's within story management, where the chapters are listed), it should show up as "exported CH whatever" on the Docs thing. Then, modify it there, then replace the 'bad' chapter with the modified one. It is quite a handy tool, I must say. Before, I think I had to resubmit the whole thing (load it on word or whatever, upload, mod it on the docs thing, replace chapter).

As for your request, sure. I'll try, but I won't be able to comment for possibly a week. HP 6 is coming out, and I'll be living in happyland for awhile. But I will say it right now, I try to be critical, and correct errors. I try to be nice about it, but…

About your proposal, consider it accepted. I know my e-mail address is correct, so if you want to e-mail that, feel free. I'll e-mail you the chapters where your character gets involved for you to ok before I put them up. However, it'll take a LONG time for that to happen… scroll down to the 'To All Readers' notice.


TO ALL READERS OF CELADON FLIGHT: Sandstone here. I'm back to normal(ish), so the update rate won't be zero for months. Instead, it'll just be whenever I get the time (which won't be often), and inspiration to work on a chapter. So it'll be slowly updated, from now on.
Chapter Forty-one: End result
Chris yawned, and rubbed his eyes until they opened. Kani, Krited, Revae, and Gra were sleeping nearby, looking exhausted. Chris noticed that there was a Ninetales, but no Vulpix around. Mathrara must have evolved… and he looked mostly normal. From what he could see (which wasn't much, he wasn't a morning person), the only unique feature that made Mathrara different was the blue eyes of the Ninetales, and the tips of the tail were a dark red.

He muttered to himself, "well, at least he was sensible. He's unique… but won't stand out in a crowd."

Mathrara opened his eyes, and grinned at Chris. (Kani and Krited refused to let me get anything worse than this. How do I look?)

Chris looked him over again, and finally said "Different. The red tail-tips… those aren't typical."

(And the blue eyes…)

Chris snorted. "Well, you sound different. More mature. But… you still going to pull pranks on me?"

Mathrara tilted his head inwards, looking like he was seriously considering the question. (Well, Kani made me swear to lay off her, so that's out. I think I might occasionally make a joke, but more along the line that Gra favors.)

Chris arched an eyebrow. "Popping out of nowhere, and making your soul leave your body?"

Mathrara yawned, then shook his head. (No, more like the clever jokes he makes. The practical jokes that don't hurt anyone)

Sanja, who was nearby, started to stir. Chris turned an eye to her, then shrugged. "Well, you have grown up. And… well, if you want, we can stop at the contest areas, let you try that out."

Mathrara tilted his head, then nodded. (Sounds like fun, so long as I get to torch someone.)

(Well, instead of a showoffy Vulpix, we've got a conceited Ninetails. Dunno if the trade was worth it.)

"Venac!" (I'm hurt… I mean, come on! I know you want to fly… so why can't I look like I want?)

Venac, Sanja's Charmeleon, shrugged, smirking slightly. (I was just poking fun of him, Chris. Don't take it so seriously.)

Chris grinned at Venac. "Sorry, I can't tell with you. Sometimes, you sound like you're ready to scorch everyone, and not give a Rattata's ass if someone dies."

Venac scratched his head, and he grinned. (Well, blame Sanja. Her personality rubbed off on me.)

"Mine didn't rub off on Kani…"

(Actually, it did. She has this big crush on you… though it seems like it's becoming not as big of a deal…)

Chris blinked, and looked over at the sleeping Kani. "Huh… I figured, somehow. I'm hoping that she finds someone else, before she works up the nerve to actually tell me, because I doubt anything like that would work out… is she over it?"

Kani sneezed in her sleep, but didn't look like she wasn't waking up anytime soon.

Mathrara yawned, and then grinned slightly (Well, that's what she was keeping quiet? And she called me perverted…)

Venac snorted. (There have been several cases of human-pokemon relationships, actually. I lived with Oak for some time, I heard a lot. They were mostly humanoid pokemon, but it happened. People keep it quiet, because the church takes that as an ultimate perversion of its teachings. And they don't take lightly to that, there have been mysterious fires…)

Mathrara made a face. (Sounds disgusting to me. It's fun to be hugged by human girls, their breasts are soft and nice… but to… bleargh.)

Chris made a face at Mathrara. "Now I know why you kept on acting like you loved girl hugs…"

Venac shrugged, looking like Sanja for a moment. (Revae's been talking to her, advising her to let you go. She knows it wouldn't work out, and she's been trying to persuade her that it won't work. Kani… I think she's starting to understand that the two of you can be best friends, but not lovers.)

Mathrara snorted, but remained only commented with (when the moon and sun collide, will Kani lust after me. She made that much clear to me… I have the worst luck with women.)

Venac laughed, spraying a few stray embers. Sanja woke up, and looked over at her laughing Charmeleon. "What's so funny?"

Chris grinned. "Nothing, just talking. Now, I've got to get to making food." They'd eat cold food today, no reason to waste time with a fire.


Sanja walked over to Krited, and started to wake it (Krited didn't have a gender). "Krited, wake up. I need a translation, and Chris won't help me."

The Lunatone's eyes slowly opened, and gave a mental moan before slowly hovering in the air. (What… what?)

(Krited, what was Chris talking about?)

Krited yawned mentally (it came across their line of communication), and finally said (They were talking about Kani, not you. I was too sleepy to pay much attention.)

Sanja glared at her Lunatone. "I hope you're telling the truth, and a certain someone didn't spill anything."

Venac must have heard, because he drew her eye, and shook his head clearly. Chris was looking rather intense, as if something was worrying him, he wasn't paying much attention to anything besides breakfast, and his thoughts.


Chris asked lightly, "Hey, Sanja… what was that prophesy mumbo-jumbo that you brought up before?"

Sanja glared at him. "Nothing, forget I ever said it."

"But…"

"FORGET IT!"

Krited floated over Sanja's shoulder, and said (Sanja, despite what you believe, prophesies have an annoying habit of coming true, whether you like it or not. You might as well…)

Sanja glared at Krited, and it trailed off. "No. Just forget it."

Chris shrugged. "Well, since Krited seems fine, as soon as the others wake up, we'll keep on going. We're running low on food, anyway, and the next village is two days away."


"Well, well, if it isn't a pair of pitiful trainers. Look at their pathetic pokemon Mil! They don't stand a chance in the wilds."

Sanja looked over at the owner of that haughty voice. A rather beautiful woman was standing there, talking to her Milotic, pointedly not looking at them.

She kept on making comments like that, until Mathrara had enough, and sprayed a few embers at her Milotic.

The woman turned to them, an outraged expression on her face. "Why you…" her gaze stopped, looking at Mathrara. Sanja didn't get it – he mostly looked normal, except for the red tail-tips, and the blue eyes. Just a mostly normal Ninetales… sorta. "Well," the woman continued haughtily (though Sanja could detect a note of greed in her voice), "maybe that Ninetales would be worth something, but I doubt they've managed to bring out its full potential…"

Chris snorted, and said, "well, if you're so confident, try us. Two on two, one of mine and one of Sanja's verses your pokemon. We'll see who's weaker." He'd been stung by her arrogance, and even if he was a gifted one, he was still human enough to be annoyed.

The woman laughed haughtily, and released her other pokemon.


Anekiro shuddered, hit by the Ice Beam. (Damn it… that HURT!) He fired a Thunderbolt in return, hitting the Milotic.

The two panted, looking exhausted. Chris called out slowly "Anekiro, can you keep this up?"

(Tired… tired… but I'll live.)

The woman smiled, and ordered "Milotic, Ice Beam again!"

Anekiro wearily gathered energy around him, and shot a Thunderbolt, just as the Milotic fired the frozen beam. The two of them connected… and both pokemon passed out. Chris sighed, and returned Anekiro to his pokeball. "Good job."

The woman returned her Milotic as well, and then crossed her arms. "Well, I won, so I demand that Ninetales' pokeball."

Chris flinched, as he felt fire nearby. Her Milotic and Miltank against Sanja's Dasban (Scizor), and Chris's Anekiro. Dasban had defeated Miltank, but was frozen over by an Ice Beam. That had really pissed off Sanja, Dasban had the type advantage in that battle.

Sanja stepped next to Chris, and crossed her arms. "We don't owe you anything, hag."

Mathrara stepped next to Chris, and growled slightly. (Try and take me. Kani got my word, so she went a step beyond. I'll use Iron Tail on your legs if I have to.)

The woman snorted haughtily, and turned away. "Maybe I was wrong. That Ninetales seems even weaker when you get closer to it. Why, I doubt they're even feeding it correctly…"

Sanja shouted "Bitch!", and slugged her, knocking her out. Chris whistled softly – he knew that would hurt in the morning – and she wouldn't wake up for a day at least. It had been THAT strong of a blow.

Sanja turned back to him, looking angry. "Stupid bitch woman…" She walked over to him, and crossed her arms. "Why didn't you do that?"

Chris shrugged mildly. "uh… mmph!"


A/N: I've recently encountered a rather amazing fanfic. It's in the Teen Titans section, called These Black Eyes, by Post. It's high quality (better than I make, but maybe it's me), and… well, somehow, the author goes for 270 chapters. I recommend you give it a trial.

As for anyone who wants character profiles / full list of names, check my profile. From now on, most major characters will be listed there, and I'll update when more imporant characters appear.